After a breakfast of pastries and croissants at the Manoir Guérin de bla Houssaye/b, a beautiful bed and breakfast in Bayeux, we headed for Sainte-Mére-Eglise, the first town to be liberated. ... From our bhotel/b, Le Dauphin, in the heart of the city, it was a short walk to the shops and harbour, William the Conqueror's castle, and an excellent Friday street market which, like all French food markets, knocks the British equivalent into a cocked hat. ...